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Agreed. It's the kind of thing where you can't ever completely write it off as a joke. Even if only for the sake of the person who made the joke: if anything
by nicklaf 11y ago
Agreed. It's the kind of thing where you can't ever completely write it off as a joke. Even if only for the sake of the person who made the joke: if anything terrible and mysterious were to happen to Tetrick, having previously joked about killing him unnecessarily makes him a suspect.
- moron4hire 11y agoWow, didn't think we'd be expressing a particularly controversial opinion. Learn something new about HN every day.
- nicklaf 11y agoVery strange indeed.
- pessimizer 11y agoDo either of you have any evidence or statistics that joking about killing someone is in any way associated positively with actually killing that person? If not, I don't know what your points are other than that you find humor of that type distasteful. If you don't have any such evidence, then all I can guess is that you're arguing that we should fixate on innuendo as opposed to evidence, or avoid speech that could inspire other people to fixate on innuendo rather than evidence. Has anybody who joked about bombs in the line to get on a plane ever bombed one?
- nicklaf 11y agoThat's not the greatest analogy. Obviously I don't suspect somebody standing in line and who doesn't fit the profile of a terrorist, just because they joke about doing something for which they have no obvious motive. In this case we have business associates--who have already been trying to eliminate what they see as an existential threat--making a joke in private. At the very least, it's rather distasteful that this is funny to them, especially when you realize that stuff like this actually does happen.